Plan now to attend BigIdeas 2009 Customer and Industry Forum and discover best practices for guided selling, product configuration, and sales process efficiencies.
BigIdeas 2009 provides a forum for customers, partners, industry experts, and interested companies to discuss innovative business strategies and best practices to increase revenues, improve sales efficiencies and reduce costs. BigIdeas offers the opportunity for direct access to peers and thought leaders where you can learn and share actionable strategies on how to:
Eliminate redundant steps and labor-intensive manual processes in the sales cycle
Take a complex quote and order process and make it much simpler and more accurate
Increase quotation volume and sales
Quickly generate customized proposals, contracts and other sales documents
Improve forecast and order accuracy
Incorporate real-time pricing updates
Develop more timely and automated online relationships with sales reps, customers and distributors to help them easily identify, select, configure, quote and order products that meet customers’ specific needs
If your company wants to improve its sales cycles and centrally manage its sales processes, then you will find this conference valuable and enlightening.
You can also participate in planning BigMachines’ next product release. Join us as we share our detailed roadmap plans. Provide input in guiding our product development priorities to meet your business needs. Each year we commit to developing the top features voted by our customers, and to launch them prior to next year’s conference.
Keynote Speaker:
Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research
The keynote address at BigIdeas 2009 will be delivered by Bruce Richardson, Chief Research Officer, AMR Research. Since joining AMR Research in 1988, he has been responsible for spearheading new market coverage and contributing to the company’s analysis of leading market trends in areas such as ERP, supply chain management, service-oriented architectures, software-as-a-service, software appliances, and virtualization and visualization. Bruce has made many early market predictions that have been realized, such as the rise of the advanced planning market and the evolution of MRP to ERP. He writes the lead research piece for First Thing Monday, a weekly publication that has become a must-read for people interested in the future of software. Bruce will provide BigIdeas attendees with insights into emerging trends in enterprise software, the growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS), and the role of software solutions in enabling companies to do more and do it faster.
Platinum Sponsor Keynote Speaker:
Mark Woollen
Vice President, Social CRM Products, Oracle
Mark Woollen is vice president of Social CRM Products at Oracle. In addition to defining product and market strategy for the sales, PRM, and customer order management segments of Oracle’s CRM portfolio, he is responsible for expanding it from traditional Internet applications to collaborative Web 2.0 tools. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Woollen was vice president of products for InQuira Corp. He has also held management roles in financial services and high technology sales consulting at Siebel and Oracle and at investment management solutions provider Advent Software. Before turning to enterprise software, Mr. Woollen worked in financial services and electronic payment systems at Bank of America and as a consultant at Edgar, Dunn & Co.
Featured Speaker:
Gene Alvarez,
VP, Gartner
CRM Research
Gene Alvarez is a VP in the Gartner CRM research organization. He is a recognized authority on retail and consumer packaged goods industry applications and practices. Gene is also an international expert on sell-side strategies and technologies such as: channel/partner relationship management, catalog/content management, sell-side e-commerce applications, catalog/configuration management and presentation, commerce/merchant applications and services, web content management, personalization and consumer portals. At BigIdeas, Gene will share his insights about building a customer-centric approach to CRM and ecommerce applications.
